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Liverpool Echo
Liverpool Echo
National
Paul McAuley

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An American artist who was believed to be “filled with demons of perversion” had exorcisms while growing up.

Khaleb Brooks, originally from Chicago but now living in Liverpool’s Georgian Quarter, claims he had people from a church stand over him praying in an attempt to free him from the “spirits of homosexuality.”

The 31-year-old told the ECHO : “It definitely wasn't easy. My mum was a very hardcore born-again Christian. So I was considered to be filled with demons of perversion and had exorcisms. People praying over me and trying to find out those spirits of homosexuality.

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